The Social Audience of Prayer

Name: The Social Audience of Prayer
Start: 2026-12-01T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-01
Location: Conrad Grebel University College

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📅 Tue, Dec 1, 2026 · 4:00 PM📍 Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, ON🏠 140 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6Price not listed

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Book Launch When most people imagine ‘prayer’ they think of some kind of communication with God, so that describing biblical psalms as prayers predisposes us to hear them as speech to the divine. However, the vast majority of psalms also speak about rather than to God and regularly turn to explicitly address a human audience. What implication does this social audience of prayer have for interpreting the Psalms? And how might this recognition help contemporary faith communities to break out of the

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